A merchant wants to include taxes In an Adobe Commerce store. Which option can have a tax class assigned to it?

In Adobe Commerce, tax classes are fundamental components used to calculate taxes. They can be assigned to products, customer groups, and shipping methods. Assigning a tax class to shipping allows merchants to apply specific tax rules to the shipping charges of an order, separate from the products being sold. This is a standard configuration found under the Sales > Tax settings, enabling flexible tax calculations based on jurisdiction and the nature of the shipping service.

A. Order: An order is a transactional document that aggregates taxable items. Tax classes are applied to the components of an order (like products and shipping), not to the order entity itself.
C. Category: A category is a classification for grouping products. Tax classes are assigned directly to individual products via the "Tax Class" attribute, not to the categories they belong to.

1. Adobe Commerce User Guide, General Tax Settings: In the section describing tax configuration, the guide explicitly details the "Tax Class for Shipping" field. It states, "Determines the tax class that is used for shipping calculations."

Source: Adobe Commerce User Guide, Sales, Tax, General Tax Settings. (Accessed under the Stores > Settings > Configuration > Sales > Tax path description).

2. Adobe Commerce User Guide, Product Tax Classes: This section explains that tax classes are created and then assigned to products to identify them for tax purposes. It confirms that the assignment is at the product level.

Source: Adobe Commerce User Guide, Sales, Tax, Product Tax Classes.

3. Adobe Commerce User Guide, Customer Tax Classes: This documentation details how tax classes are assigned to customer groups to apply different tax rules based on the customer type (e.g., retail vs. wholesale). This further illustrates the entities to which tax classes are applied, which does not include 'Order' or 'Category'.

Source: Adobe Commerce User Guide, Sales, Tax, Customer Tax Classes.